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by aglionby 9y ago
Much appreciated! Will have a look.
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by aglionby 9y ago
Yeah I would agree. I've struggled to find much work that looks at this at a large scale though!
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by aglionby 9y ago
> Another problem of word vectors is that any word might actually have multiple senses, while vectors are just point estimates. If we wanted to be correct, we needed first to find the right sense for each word in a phrase and only then a
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by aglionby 9y ago
Yes, I've not looked at fasttext but word2vec is a simple 1 hidden-layer network to learn word embeddings, which can then be used as pre-trained word embeddings in other tasks. CNNs and RNNs would be used in the next stage of the pipel
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by aglionby 9y ago
Combining word embeddings to get a single representation of a sentence in general is a pretty hard problem. Point-wise averaging, addition or summation [0] works alright , but it's not great. Some more recent work looks a using RNNs t
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by aglionby 9y ago
Doc2vec is the name of the gensim implementation of this paper [0]. Briefly, it creates document embeddings (document being anything on the level of phrases, to sentences, to paragraphs and beyond) on the basis of either predicting a word g
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by aglionby 9y ago
Assume data-licensing refers to selling access to the tweet firehose and things like their premium search API [1]. [1] https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2018/a...
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by aglionby 9y ago
The 404 seems to be geo-related; I used a US VPN and it loaded.
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by aglionby 9y ago
That has its own set of problems, namely data sparsity and resulting in high dimensionality vectors, although like you say does give you a little bit of context. I'm not sure that bag of anything is a good solution.
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by aglionby 9y ago
Interestingly Transport for London claims that the US embassy owes them ~£12 million in unpaid congestion charge fees, which exist as a disincentive to drive in central London. The embassy claim it's a form of taxation and as such they
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by aglionby 9y ago
I'm with you on the majority of your comment, but I'd contend that VPNs are definitely accessible for your average person, assuming they're are actually aware of them and how they help. Sure you don't get the same guaran
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by aglionby 9y ago
Not exactly related to your point about the user agent giving all kinds of arguably unnecessary information, but there's an interesting write-up about why the core user agent is the mess it is for those who've not seen it already.
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by aglionby 9y ago
I've had this for Chrome history as well. There have been multiple times where I'm sure I've browsed a site with some keyword in the title and it just doesn't show up in search. I don't tend to have a clue about t
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by aglionby 9y ago
I store my important documents on Google Drive, and have tarsnap back up that folder twice a day. Code gets backed up to private repos on Github. In the past I've used Backblaze and can really recommend it -- good interface and reason
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by aglionby 9y ago
Smilies on the old phpBB [0] forum software etc. must've been around for longer than emoji. This[1] particular set gives me a lot of nostalgia, but I can't remember what forum software it was packaged with. Things got pretty extra
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by aglionby 9y ago
The trending feed they have on their homepage is just bizarre -- it scrolls at 2x or 3x the speed of the main body. Half of me is not a fan, but the other half thinks it fits in with the design of the rest of the page (notwithstanding the
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by aglionby 9y ago
If you're asking this because you've noticed something weird with your eyes, things are blurry, or they hurt, go to the opticians. They're best placed to tell you what to do. Otherwise, I use a couple of lamps to up the ambie
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by aglionby 9y ago
As the others have said it's the ease with which you can send a photo -- it's right there when you open the app. With Messenger you've got a bunch more clicks and a slower camera, and with Insta even more clicks (chat not bei
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by aglionby 9y ago
I'm not well versed in all of this, I suspect it comes down to Bombardier being able to do this due to (allegedly illegal) government subsidies rather than being about the specific act itself. http://fortune.com/2017&#x
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by aglionby 9y ago
The Airbus + Bombardier C-series deal was confirmed in in October 2017. In September 2017 Boeing filed a suit against Bombardier, claiming that they were selling their C-series jets to Delta at illegally low prices (less than cost of produc
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by aglionby 9y ago
Mapnificent [0] seems to do something similar and I had some fun playing around with it for my city. It doesn't seem to go into as much detail as Mapzen and doesn't have an API, but it's open source. [0] https://ww
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by aglionby 9y ago
Usual disclaimer of profile your code to identify areas for improvement and try to quantify changes as far as possible -- it's no good doing things just because you think it'll make the program faster. Specifically on the Java s
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by aglionby 9y ago
I'm not sure that's the point though -- once you're up there these things are dangerous rather than just expensive. bhickey has a post further down which explains their experience nicely.
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by aglionby 9y ago
Not sure if this is the same map you're talking about, but Ordinance Survey made a map[0] using data they had in 2013, and then again in 2014. This was based on height data at 50m resolution. It's hard to see how OS capture height
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by aglionby 9y ago
Oops, brain didn't make the connection there :)
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by aglionby 9y ago
A warning that this link redirects through Facebook for me for some reason.
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by aglionby 9y ago
My go-to example for this is Yik Yak, which raised >$70 million before introducing features that drove their users away. I don't understand how that much money could be justified given the feature set of the app, though I'm ine
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by aglionby 9y ago
Specifically for the London Underground there's a lot of union opposition. Some lines have mostly-automatic operation (everything except opening/closing the doors) and keep a driver around for safety reasons.
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by aglionby 9y ago
Google's products are at least free of the dark patterns which pervade other sites. I can't believe how unpleasant the experience of booking travel online is -- it's so hard to get a clear picture of price anywhere with all t
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by aglionby 9y ago
Not just the US -- BT paid £1.18 billion for 3 years worth of football which is just insane. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/06/bt-keeps-ch...

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